Globalization, postcolonial Englishes, and the English language press in Kenya, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago

Hänsel, Eva Canan; Deuber, Dagmar

doi:10.1111/weng.12035

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“…Similar accounts of American-influenced features have been reported in spoken Indian English (Fuchs, 2015) and Singapore English (Tan, 2016). Other recent studies corroborate AmE influence in lexis and spelling (Igboanusi, 2003;Hänsel & Deuber, 2013;Fuchs, 2017;Gilquin, 2018) and in morphosyntax (Collins et al, 2014;Hackert, 2015;Deuber et al, 2021). These studies all hint at varying degrees of Americanization in Postcolonial Englishes and learner English.…”

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Irregular verb morphology in Nigerian English

Olatoye

2022

World Englishes

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Verb regularization is often characterized as a morphological Americanism in contemporary English. Using a synchronic approach, this study investigates the regular ‐ed vs. irregular ‐t alternation in preterites and past participles from British, American, and Nigerian Englishes. Although verb regularization patterns in Nigerian English are considered to be under the growing influence of American English, corpus evidence from the Global Web‐based English corpus and the International Corpus of English reveals that irregular ‐t variants remain prevalent in the written data. To examine the conditioning factors, a dataset of 1,643 annotated observations was subjected to probabilistic modelling. The results indicate that significant predictors of verb regularization behave heterogeneously in the three varieties, and there is some evidence for probabilistic indigenization in Nigerian English. These findings suggest that the role of prescriptivism in shaping the usage patterns of Nigerian users of English as a Second Language (ESL) can hardly be overlooked.

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Irregular verb morphology in Nigerian English

Olatoye

2022

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“…For KSA, stand‐up comedy is a very new genre that is the by‐product of globalization, the availability of mass media technology, and its consequent linguistic, cultural, and social contact with the Inner Circle speech communities (Canan Hänsel & Deuber ). The first documented live Saudi English stand‐up comedy performance took place in Bahrain as part of Eid festivals showcased by the company Smiles Productions, which is a Saudi‐British collaboration of stand‐up comedy in KSA.…”

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Bilingual creativity in Saudi stand‐up comedy

Fallatah

2017

World Englishes

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Stand‐up comedy is one of those art forms in which linguistic creativity can be seen in its most extravagant form, as stand‐up comedians mainly rely on their creative use of language to interact with their audience. This paper explores bilingual creativity in stand‐up comedy in Saudi English as an emerging variety. It investigates the form and function of bilingual creativity processes employed by Saudi comedians performing in English, and sets out to answer such questions as: What are the common forms of bilingual creativity in Saudi English stand‐up comedy and what functions do they serve; what cultural conceptualizations do these forms and functions evoke, and what are the implications of this study for researching bilingual creativity in world Englishes?

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“…The English language encompasses a wide range of varieties across the globe, and the language used in news media demonstrates regional and thematic variation. So far, research investigating English varieties in journalism has either focused on their regional distinctions (e.g., Canan Hänsel and Deuber, 2013) or disparities across thematic domains (e.g., Liu, 2018). Few studies examine both regional and thematic varieties in journalism from the perspective of register, resulting in a limited understanding of the applicability of register analysis in studies of English varieties.…”

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Book Review: News Across Five Continents: Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation

Jian,

2024

Journalism

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The book has a global sweep, and the cross-referencing between chapters -combined with the diversity of the contributions -gives the book a sense of unity that is rare for large companions and handbooks to achieve.Part Two: Global Perspectives is an engaging intercontinental canter that includes two pieces on censorship in China, the complicated impact of France's commitment to secularism (laïcité) on free speech debates, and an investigation into the influence of conservative sensibilities on freedom of expression in Japan by Ryusaku Yamada.Noah Mellor's chapter on the Arab region challenges the notion that ideals of media freedom from the Global North can be transplanted into other areas, contending that local cultural factors can make for distinctive conceptions of freedom of expression.Controversy is not hard to find in connection with contemporary debates around freedom of expression, and Part Three delivers a thorough exploration of these issues. Socalled cancel culture, the "war on woke", Holocaust denial, the regulation of pornography, academic freedom and the impunity enjoyed in many countries by the perpetrators of crimes against journalists are all analysed in a succession of well-paced chapters.The book's tone, including the editors' introduction, is generally anchored politically to the Left, and while broad in its scope, the companion might have benefitted from a contribution or two from the other side of the political spectrum. The Right does not have a monopoly on the abuses and charades of free speech, and it is not always clear whether the nomenclature used to characterise some current free speech proponents on the Rightsuch as free speech "fundamentalists" or "grifters" pursuing their "war" on woke -is helpful in terms of stimulating the kind of measured debate that the culture wars urgently require from both sides as an antidote to the welter of ad hominem and polarising rhetoric that swirls online.But as both a distillation of key issues and a stimulant to further debate, this is a timely book. Steel and Petley have assembled a superb collection that casts fresh light on this cornerstone issue. In that sense it is a deeply civilised and civilising piece of scholarship.

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Globalization, postcolonial Englishes, and the English language press in Kenya, Singapore, and Trinidad and Tobago

Cited by 22 publications

References 24 publications

Irregular verb morphology in Nigerian English

Irregular verb morphology in Nigerian English

Bilingual creativity in Saudi stand‐up comedy

Book Review: News Across Five Continents: Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation

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